[elcritch]

I would recommend taking this book or similar ones with a grain of salt. Just going off the summary it claims to "prove" that ADHD isn't inheritable, which goes against lots of well established research showing strong inheritability of ADHD.

Any books that claim to undercover the "root cause" of something as varied and complex likely haven't. Now it might have great insights, but presenting the book this way gives a bit of undertone as "cure ADHD with this one simple trick!".

Guessing about the content of the book, it likely seems to discuss healing emotional regulation by some means. If so I'd agree it's a valuable aspect of treating ADHD, as most ADHD'ers also suffer significant emotional damage. That damage and accompanying maladaptive coping often is far impactful than ADHD itself.

[mbrock]

Maté says the inheritable trait is a kind of nervous sensitivity that develops into ADHD in certain early childhood environments especially when the caretakers are stressed, depressed, or otherwise unable to provide the infant with the stable, responsive gaze that they need. I don’t know how true that is, but that’s the idea in “Scattered Minds.”